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Yesterday I blogged about all the benefits of joining ChannelDB2.com . One of the things that I encouraged you to do is to join a group if there is a group that covers topics that you are interested in... and to participate in the groups in whatever way you can. Today I got an invite from Rav Ahuja who has just created a new group on ChannelDB2.com called " Chat with the Lab " . If you are a member of this group, you'll automatically receive a notification for upcoming or previously recorded Chat with the Lab sessions. Chat... [More]

You've heard of IBM & Cloud Computing & Amazon .... what do the three have in common? For one, IBM & Amazon have joined together to bring you a FREE webinar about Cloud Computing. Why? IBM
DB2 database software running on Amazon EC2 lets you get the most out
of your IT budget . IBM and Amazon Web Services provide a lot of
flexibility for cloud computing, including free DB2 AMIs, low cost
by-the-hour production-ready DB2 AMIs, and the ability to bring your
existing DB2 licenses to the cloud. Attend the event to learn more about... [More]

I enjoy working with all the IBM Champions who I’ve had the pleasure of meeting so far. The one champion I’d like to focus on in this blog entry is Scott Hayes. Once again, Scott has filled his DB2Night Show calendar with educational webinars that you’ll want to take part in. This is the fifth season, so there are already 4 seasons of great episodes that you can watch in replay. He’s also planning on a 4th edition of the “DB2’s Got Talent” Competition. He’s already... [More]

July is a great time to go on vacation, but if that’s not the case for you, consider attending one of these webinars to help beat the heat: July 25 Join Daniel Zilio, Jessica Rockwood & Marcia Miskimen on the DB2 Tech Talk to learn how tools can be used to make the adoption of BLU Acceleration technology faster & easier. http://bit.ly/tt2013jul July 30 ' BI Just Got Faster with BLU Acceleration from IBM ' with speakers Bernie Spang... [More]

The next DB2 Tech Talk will take place on May 8th and will explore the exciting technology in the DB2 10.5 for Linux, UNIX and Windows with BLU Acceleration product announcement. This includes BLU Acceleration designed to deliver actionable information from data analytics workloads with the speed and precision that is terms "Speed of Thought" analytics. Find out about enhancements to DB2 pureScale that make it even more able to deliver always available transactions. Of course like many releases there are updates to SQL... [More]

Lots of votes came in over the past two weeks. Our final four contestants, Ember, Mohan, Eric, & Chris know how to use their networks! It was a very close call for 2nd, 3rd,
& 4th places. A new record was set for the number of votes
received: 1367 Thanks to all who voted!! I hope you enjoy the show
and will come back to replay many of the other informative shows in the
DB2Night Show collection. Thanks to the sponsors for offering these excellent prizes! 1st
Prize: One FREE IDUG Conference Registration to any IDUG... [More]

The
top 5, based on last week’s votes, presented today on the DB2Night
Show’s “DB2’s Got Talent” Competition. The top 3 are automatically saved
while the judges must save one of the bottom 2. If you missed today’s show, check out the replay. The winner from last week show will be announced on Scott’s blog and will win a $25 amazon.com gift certificate. More
than 800 votes were cast in the past week. Thanks to all! Be sure to
come back for the final week of voting! Based on votes, here is the
current ranking. 1. Mohan 2. Ember... [More]

The
top 7 finalists of the DB2Night Show “DB2’s Got Talent” competition
presented today. And guess what we got? Another 7 great presentations
that were both entertaining and informative! The
last round of the competition ended up with 964 votes! Can we top that
in the next round? As a result of the votes, we’ve identified the top 4
and the bottom 3 ⇒ The judges will save 1 from the bottom 3 in this
show. Next week we’ll hear from the Top 5 as determined by your votes. So support these rising stars... listen, vote, and share!... [More]

A
whopping 730 votes were cast for our finalists before Friday’s show!
As a result, we have our top 6 and bottom 3 contestants. The task for
the judges is to save one of the bottom 3 and then to hand off the
voting to you the listeners again. Let’s try to beat the number of
votes from last week! Two of our bottom three: Renu How I successfully, designed, implemented and monitored IBM InfoSphere Event Publisher.... My Experience. Event
Publisher is a Subset of Q Replication. Rene provided a good
definition of this tool with... [More]

Today’s
DB2Night Show featured the top 10 contestants who were chosen by the
judges in February. They each had four minutes to impress the audience
and replay listeners. That’s correct. This time the judges are giving
feedback, but are not choosing the best competitor. I must say that
I’m very glad I’m not choosing the best. If you were in the audience
today or if you listen to the replay , you’ll see what I mean: All presenters were incredible Lots of learning happening today! Here’s a summary: Ember The Fragmentation of... [More]

Today
the three judges of the DB2Night Show “DB2’s Got Talent” Competition
presented along with host Scott Hayes. It was fun, and hopefully
informative to the audience. I
presented first and sadly ran out of time! It is much harder than it
looks. My presentation was on the Power of Social media. I gave tips
on how people can promote the work that they do to the DB2 community,
how to listen to what is going on in the community, and how people can
contribute via likes, comments and sharing the content provided by
others.... [More]

Berni
Schiefer is the guest on this week’s DB2Night Show. Berni is a DB2
performance legend and you’ll greatly benefit from hearing his talk.
Berni will share the latest news, tips and advice about DB2 LUW 10. Thanks to IBM Champions and hosts of this fabulous show: Scott Hayes and Martin Hubel Click here to register . Remember, all shows are recorded, so if you miss it, you can still catch up at a later time. Also remember that Feb 1 begins the 3rd "DB2's Got Talent Competition. For information, see my blog entry: Become a DB2... [More]

What
have former contestants of “DB2’s Got Talent” competition been able to
achieve since they improved their presentation skills as a result? Some
of the former contestants have been telling me about their published
articles and IDUG presentation. If you haven’t contacted me already and
you were a contestant, tell me about what you’ve been up to. Before
you read the list, I first want to say that I’m very proud of each and
everyone one of these people as becoming presenters and writers isn’t
always easy. I’m also very glad... [More]

Join DB2 expert Kelly Schlamb and panelists Ben Ream and Debbie Hauss as they discuss The New Rules Of Always-On Retailing in a free webinar. Date: Tuesday, December 18th, 2012 Time: 1:00 pm ET Retailers
have specific database needs, especially this time of year. Any outages
to a retailer's computer systems, quickly means loss of revenue. To
help retailers ensure that their systems can handle unexpected
transaction spikes and to adjust to new demands quickly, retailers must
deploy and manage a continuously available environment. A... [More]

This Friday Nov 30 at 11:00 am ET, join host Scott Hayes and guest Glen Sheffield from IBM for the next DB2Night Show. The topic of the day: IBM DB2 LUW Data Warehouse & DPF Performance Glen will share the latest tips and advice on maximizing DB2 DPF Performance. Click to Register. For more information on this topic, see the following resources: Download an evaluation copy: IBM InfoSphere Warehouse 10.1 Enterprise Edition What's new Video: Tour of InfoSphere Warehouse Whitepaper: From the department to the enterprise with IBM InfoSphere... [More]